The team of Invisible East is pleased to announce its upcoming conference A Hard Row to Hoe: Landowning and Land Management in the Medieval Islamic World.

 

Between the 12th and 14th December 2022, Invisible East will host the conference A Hard Row to Hoe: Landowning and Land Management in the Medieval Islamic World, in person, at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

The conference investigates landownership and the organisation of agricultural production in the medieval Islamic world (ca. 622-1250 CE), from North Africa to Central Asia: the economic relationships between cultivators, landlords, and the state, and how these changed and varied over time and space.

The programme of the conference is in preparation and it will be published soon. 

 

For more information and registrations, please visit the conference page.

 

Related

manis seal for blog 7 2

Varieties of Middle Persian I: The Manichaean, Book Pahlavi and Inscriptional Scripts

The first in a series of blogs about Middle Persian, by Thomas Benfey.
claudette bleijenberg usovzlfpa4 unsplash

An Arabic fragment from the 10th century

An Arabic historical fragment reveals 10th century events 
bonardiphotoofbamiyandocjpeg

The Bonardi photo sheds light on 11th century Afghanistan

We discuss this page long document, dated to Dhu al-qa'da 470 of the Islamic era, i.e. May or June 1078 C.E.